Dog name · New York City
Hamilton
86 licensed New York dogs are called Hamilton, which makes it the 587th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Hamilton are almost always male. The name is now 1.5x more common than it was fifteen years ago.
Is Hamilton getting more or less popular?
Among dogs born in 2005, 0 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Hamilton. For dogs born in 2023 it was 4.1. The name peaked with the 2017 litters.
Where Hamilton is an Alphabet City name
Hamilton is 3.24x more common in Alphabet City than across the city as a whole.
dogs called Hamilton per 10,000 dogs in that ZIP code
Only ZIP codes with at least 1,500 licensed dogs are compared, so a small neighbourhood cannot produce a large number by accident.
What sort of dog gets called Hamilton?
This comes from dog licence records, not from a count of all dogs. The New York City health department estimates that around 80% of the city’s dogs are unlicensed, so these figures describe licensed dogs only. Rates are shown per 10,000 licensed dogs so that neighbourhoods and years can be compared fairly, but a neighbourhood where fewer people license their dogs may still be represented differently from one where more people do. Records are as supplied by the city and are not corrected for owner error.